Royal Artillery RegimentMemorial

To the Right Honorable Lord SIDNEY, one of His
Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State &c &c &c

The Memorial of the Officers, Artificers, & Labourers of the Civil Branch of the Ordnance

Humbly Sheweth

That they conceive a reduction of the Civil Branch of the Ordnance will take place when the Peace Establishment is form'd.

That several of the Artificers having Applied to Brigadier General MARTIN Commanding the Royal Artillery to be discharged the service, he gave them Discharges, and are already settled in Nova Scotia.

That the memorrialists actuated by other Principles, and holding it as a maxim, that their private intrest, is not to interfere with their public duty, have declin'd making any application for a Settlement as they are conscious that their labours and their Services must be wanted, while the Ordnance and Stores continue to be attach'd to the Service of the Army.

That they present this address with no view to an immediate provision, That they mean only to inform His Excellency that a Sett of men who has zealously done their duty thro' the whole course of this War, and many of them thro' the former War, are determined to continue to do it while their services are required, and only wish for an Asylum for themselves and their families, when their personal exertions are no longer necessary.

That trusting to His Excellency's unremitting Attention to relieve the distresses and grant protection to those who have faithfully done their duty They humbly pray.

That His Excellency would be pleas'd to order that an allotment of Lands may be granted and set apart for them, in Nova Scotia, where they may shelter themselves and their families, when the Service shall no longer have occasion for them and their Labours.

Stations

Names

Wives

Children

Commissary & Paymaster

Alexander SCHAW

Commissary of Stores

George WRAY

1

2

Clerks of Stores

Thomas Charles MAN

1

2

Robert MEAD

1

4

Conductors of Stores

Henry UHTHOFF

William HALL

Thomas AUSTIN

William PLANT

1

1

Lawrence R. STEPHENS

William LAING

Adam FIFE

1

2

David HARPER

Agents of Transports

James GREEN

1

5

William GIBSON

Overseer of the Works

Thomas AUSTIN

Storekeeper & Paymaster Ordnance

Francis STEPHENS

6

Clerk of Cheque Ordnance

William SINCLAIR

Paymasters Clerk

William GORDON

Carpenters

Edward JOHNSTON

Alexander COWAN

1

2

Coopers

Thomas WALKER

1

3

Robert TILL

1

1

Armourers

Joseph RUSSELL

1

4

William MOUNTFERD

1

Wheelers

William COOK

1

1

Jacob Van RIPER

John FITZPATRICK

Harmon VAN RIPER

1

John SNIDER

Smiths

Joseph NIX

1

James LOVE

1

1

Collarmakers

Henry COWER

1

2

Thomas BIRD

1

Printer

William PARKER

1

2

Labourers

John McNAIR

1

Lewis GREENFIELD

1

3

John McCAY

1

Richard MEAD

Alexander McBEAN

1

1

John McCRAW

1

Zebulon SCOFIELD

1

1

William TAYLOR

Asst. Commsys. of Horse

Charles CURTIS

1

1

James FRASER

1

4

Jacob WYKOFF

Conductors of Horse

James STOKES

1

2

Peter DAVIDSON

1

Thomas THOMSON

1

3

Farriers

Martin MARIGAN

John BELL

3

John LAWSON

3

Drivers

Thomas STEWART

Robert COVENTRY

John McBEAN

Barny DONNALLY

John HASTY

James LAM, Junr.

1

1

Thomas GRIMMER

1

John FOSTER

John GRAHAM

John CORVAN

William COLE

Thomas GRACE

1

1

Daniel LAFFERTY

William ROSE

Malachah JONES

James MAXWELL

Mathew KENTON

1

1

John COLVIL

Samuel MEAD

Thomas WHITE

David RICHARDSON

Edward BRISTOL

1

Andrew BETTINGER

1

Francis BROOM

John RYAN

Peter AILWOOD

Thomas ADDINSON

George SURBERT

John NOBLE

John BARCLAY

1

William BOLTON

James LANE, Senr.

Robert CONYERS

Drivers

Joseph FREEMAN

Baker STEAD

John FITZPATRICK

Conductors of Horse

Ebenezer WHIPPLE

Owen WILLIAMS

Belonging to the Storekeeper

Assistant in the Stores

Peter McCAY

1

4

Master Armourer

Henry WALKEYS

1

4

Cooper

George CROSBY

1

1

Armourers & labourers

Nathaniel CAMPBELL

Mathew FORD

1

2

Edward TALLEN

1

Edward ANNELY

Joseph HOLDSTOCK

1

John RYAN

1

4

George JACK

1

2

John STAKER

Richard SPARKS

Artillery Smith

Robert SAMSON

Artillery Carpenter

John WARNOCK

Great Britain, Public Record Office, Headquarters Papers of the British Army in America, PRO 30/55/9756.